| 21. | The female lays her eggs by thrusting her ovipositor deep into the soil.
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| 22. | This process leads in the ovipositor drilling almost an inch into the sapwood.
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| 23. | Of the female genitalia, the ovipositor is narrow.
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| 24. | The ovipositor has a cutting implement and sensory setae.
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| 25. | The epigynum in females possesses a short triangular scape ( or ovipositor ).
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| 26. | The females are recognizable by the club-shaped end of the ovipositor.
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| 27. | The ovipositor appears as a single filament, but it comprises three filaments.
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| 28. | In some females, the sclerites are rolled into a flexible, telescopic ovipositor.
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| 29. | Females can reject males by moving away, kicking, and extruding their ovipositor.
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| 30. | The first fossils of modern cockroaches with internal ovipositors appeared in the early Cretaceous.
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